Japanese Teaching Topic - GEOGRAPHY

Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic GEOGRAPHY ちり.

Boardgames

Countires and nationalities boardgame
Practice asking and answering questions about various countries and nationalities.
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Flashcards

Country and Nationality Flashcards
16 different country flashcards.  Useful for teaching nationalities and introductions.
Countries flashcards
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Websites

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Interactive Japanese map
http://www.japantravelinfo.com/imap/flash.html
Use this interactive Japanese map to learn more about places around Japan.
Listening to Japanese city names
http://www.coscom.co.jp/mapofjapan/japanesemap-e.html
Interactive map where you can listen to the names of major cities in Japan being read out by native speakers.
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World maps                 
http://www.freemap.jp/index.html
Maps of the world in Japanese

Train maps                    
http://www.bento.com/tokyofood.html

Tokyo train and subway maps

Japanese geography   
http://www.international.ucla.edu/eas/japan/geography/
Japan geography explained

Worksheets

Describing famous Japanese places
http://activity-resources.jpf-sydney.org/ar/ar_05/3/3_1.htm
Describe Japanese places using よう、そう、らしい.